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  • Senate Dems: We're Horrified the GOP is Exploiting Our Power Grab on Judicial Confirmations

    05/11/2018 1:14:39 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 41 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | May 11, 2018 | Guy Benson
    Having escalated the judicial confirmation wars at virtually every turn since the 1980's, Senate Democrats in the early 2000's pioneered a new form of self-interested obstruction to block a number of President Bush's nominees to the federal bench.  When Republicans retaliated in kind during the Obama era, many of those same Senate Democrats -- led by Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer -- voted to eliminate the filibuster rule they'd exploited to thwart Bush.  Detonating the 'nuclear option' was the latest ends-justify-the-means maneuver by upper chamber liberals, to whom then-minority leader Mitch McConnell made this final plea prior to the fateful...